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postMessage

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 1)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Safely enables cross-origin communication.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://whatwg.org/html#dom-window-postmessage
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/158865

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage

Samples: http://simpl.info/postmessage/

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